Nigeria is currently a man holding a multi-trillion dollar lottery ticket, who is too busy fighting over peanuts to cash it in. We sit on 37 billion barrels of oil and 215 trillion cubic feet of gas — a hydrocarbon inheritance that should be our springboard into the future. Yet, as the global energy transition accelerates, this wealth has an expiration date. In the global energy world, the “box office” is closing, and Nigeria is on the verge of being left with a void ticket.
The last cash-out: Why Nigeria is blowing its winning ticket, By Tobi Oluwatola
